Where does LinkedIn Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), LinkedIn Corporation ranks #1,319 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does LinkedIn Corporation hold?

LinkedIn Corporation holds 322 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2019, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is LinkedIn Corporation's Innovation Score?

LinkedIn Corporation has an Innovation Score of 47.3 out of 100 (top 19% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does LinkedIn Corporation focus on?

LinkedIn Corporation's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 244 patents, ranking #259 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

Is LinkedIn Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

LinkedIn Corporation's recent grant velocity is -100% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for LinkedIn Corporation's patents?

LinkedIn Corporation's patents average 18.6 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

How is the LinkedIn Corporation patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

LinkedIn Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 322 granted patents across 21 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2019. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Linkedin ranks #1,319 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 322 patents across 21 technology areas.

#1,319
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 19%
by Innovation Score (47.3/100): 18.6
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1319 · US Corporation #1,319 · 322 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 322 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,319/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Karl Storz & KG
CPC-FOCUS G06F · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

How Linkedin’s 47.3 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Volume 20.0 pts (42%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 16.2 pts (34%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
LinkedIn · this assignee

47
Lovevery · near

47
NVH Korea · near

47
Self · near

47
Xiamen Delmei… · near

47
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Linkedin's Innovation Score is 47.3/100 (top 19% of the PatentsView-derived corpus). The chart places that score against the nearest Innovation Score peers plus corpus poles, not a reprint of the volume ranking.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Linkedin?

Each dot is one of Linkedin’s 8 nearest volume peers (same corpus rank neighbourhood as the chart above), placed by total granted patents (horizontal) against average claims per patent (vertical). Linkedin’s own 18.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Linkedin vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Linkedin's grants concentrate

LinkedIn Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 75.8% of grants classified under G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (123 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Linkedin sits between VIA Technologies, Inc. and Converse Inc..

VIA

323
Verisign

323
Korea Institute O…

322
Karl Storz & KG

322
Tokyo Institute o…

322
Linkedin ◀

322
Coplus

321
Nchain Licensing

321
Converse

320

What this shows LinkedIn holds 322 patents at rank #1,319, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near LinkedIn

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,319 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in LinkedIn's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for LinkedIn, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), LinkedIn ranks #259 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (47 here).

Self Electronics Co., Ltd. 47 Lovevery, Inc. 47 Xiamen Delmei Sanitary Ware Co., Ltd. 47 NVH Korea, Inc. 47

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.6 here).

RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc. 18.6 avg Forum US, Inc. 18.6 avg V-nova International Limited 18.6 avg McAlister Technologies, LLC 18.6 avg

Linkedin's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

47 Top 19% higher than 81% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2019

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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LinkedIn Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	104	32.3%
2016	91	28.3%
2017	123	38.2%
2018	3	0.9%
2019	1	0.3%

Which technologies does LinkedIn Corporation patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 244

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 178

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 170

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 39

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 30

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 21

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 19

H04M - Telephonic Communication 12

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 6

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 3

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 2

Top 15 of 21 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

LinkedIn Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

LinkedIn Corporation's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 75.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #1,319 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare LinkedIn Corporation against VIA Technologies, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.3/100 blends volume, velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth. How it's calculated

Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page

USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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